Film Shapes

A mid-week trip to Busselton allowed us to leave the mini-humans with the ancient ones and take in  Passengers  at the Orana Cinema. And a few days later, I'm still not sure what I thought of this film. It's cheesy, certainly. It's also sweet. It's minimalist and also fairly bloody grandiose. It poses a couple of existential questions and also has a great big misogynistic hurdle to jump. I usually wince when I hear "You'll either love it or hate it", but I reckon I like and dislike  Passengers  in equal measure. It's kind of a Jekyll and Hyde film, actually, in that I enjoyed it while watching but then it's hideous alter ego crept up and dribbled hot spit down my back. The sets up a pretty sweet poser - "Would you choose to 'wake' another human to share your isolation, even if you knew it would be condemning them to death?" I'm guessing most people would say they wouldn't......until they actually experience the situat...